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• Startup Challenges Network Tech Giants With Linux Offering
  4:24 PM EST Wed. Jun. 19, 2013
  Cumulus Networks exits stealth mode with Cumulus Linux, taking on Cisco and other vendors with 'proprietary' network technology.
• Adapting To The Era Of Big Data And Cloud Requires New Partnerships
  1:50 PM EST Tue. Jun. 18, 2013
  Your customers demand flexibility, making it critical you foster new partnerships with big data and cloud vendors, writes John Ross.
• Successful M&As: Notes From A Consultant's Playbook
  9:50 AM EST Mon. Jun. 17, 2013
  CRN talks with noted M&A consultant Marty Wolf, who describes the current environment for mergers and acquisitions, and outlines best practices for success.
• The Buying Game: Is Now The Right Time To Sell Or Merge Your Business?
  9:45 AM EST Mon. Jun. 17, 2013
  Solution providers and industry experts offer their thoughts on the climate for mergers and acquisitions in the channel and how to strike a successful deal.
• Top Channel M&A Transactions Of The Past 12 Months
  3:00 PM EST Fri. Jun. 14, 2013
  Mergers and acquisitions can offer solution providers a means of becoming more competitive or an avenue to cash out. CRN looks at some of the major transactions in recent months.
• M&A Best Practices: A View From The Trenches
  3:00 PM EST Fri. Jun. 14, 2013
  Channel pros offer advice on what to expect during a merger or acquisition and tips to ensure M&A success.
• 5 Companies That Came To Win This Week
  11:16 AM EST Fri. Jun. 14, 2013
  For the week ending June 14, CRN looks at five companies that brought their 'A' game and made moves to beat out competitors.
• Microsoft, At Last, Offers Its Office Apps For Apple's iPhone
  10:42 AM EST Fri. Jun. 14, 2013
  The new Office Mobile for iPhone is available free to Office 365 subscribers, potentially providing a boost for the cloud application suite. But Microsoft isn't offering a version specifically for the iPad.
• What's Your Sales Outlook For 2013? (Video)
  12:15 PM EST Thu. Jun. 13, 2013
  CRN TV talks with Cisco partners at its recent 2013 Partner Summit event to see where they're making money and placing big bets.
• Red Hat Offers Complete Cloud Package, Commercial OpenStack Release
  7:29 PM EST Wed. Jun. 12, 2013
  Competition with VMware heats up with a new Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure package and an upgrade for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.
• Test Center Road Trip: 5 Scenes From Samsung's High-Tech Briefing Center
  4:00 PM EST Wed. Jun. 12, 2013
  There was much fanfare at the grand opening of Samsung's Executive Briefing Center.
• Red Hat, Progress Software Enter The PaaS Software Competition
  2:43 PM EST Tue. Jun. 11, 2013
  Progress Software launches its Pacific PaaS platform while Red Hat offers a commercial version of its OpenShift software.
• Channel Chief Vows Increased Partner Focus As BMC Gets Set To Become Private
  2:32 PM EST Mon. Jun. 10, 2013
  BMC channel partners are hopeful the company will make good on its plans to move away from its emphasis on direct sales and become more channel-centric.
• IBM Partner Puts Big Data To Work At Seattle Children's Hospital
  10:25 AM EST Mon. Jun. 10, 2013
  IBM's PureData System for Analytics is a critical element in the data warehouse system Brightlight Consulting is building for the hospital.
• Machine-To-Machine Technology Is Here: You Don't Have To Imagine The Opportunities
  9:35 AM EST Mon. Jun. 10, 2013
  Machine-to-machine communications and the Internet of Things trend are fast becoming realities. Take advantage of them now and watch your business grow.
• Channel Beat: Cisco's Bold 'Internet Of Everything' Vision
  12:20 PM EST Fri. Jun. 07, 2013
  This week's recap also looks at new details for Microsoft's Windows 8.1 update as well as scary findings from a new data breach study.
• 5 Companies That Came To Win This Week
  10:00 AM EST Fri. Jun. 07, 2013
  For the week ending June 7, CRN looks at five companies that brought their 'A' game and made moves to beat out competitors.
• Cloud App Developer Steelwedge Preps Formal Partner Program
  11:24 AM EST Thu. Jun. 06, 2013
  Steelwedge, a rising star in the sales and operations planning application space, is putting together the marketing and training components of the program for a fall launch.
• Solution Provider CMT: Cloud Means We Have To Rethink How We Sell
  10:00 AM EST Thu. Jun. 06, 2013
  A CMT executive talks about the decision to integrate sales forces, saying 'you can't make the best money selling one or the other, but instead need both the cloud and the on-premises technology.'
• The Need For Speed: IBM Picks Up Cloud Provider SoftLayer
  11:42 AM EST Tue. Jun. 04, 2013
  IBM channel partners see benefits ahead if IBM can adopt SoftLayer's nimble business and channel processes in the fast-moving cloud market.
• Using A Microsite Marketing Strategy To Beat The Competition
  5:30 PM EST Mon. Jun. 03, 2013
  Solution providers can create co-branded sites with their vendor partners to differentiate themselves, writes channel marketing expert John Convery.
• 30 Notable IT Executive Moves: May 2013
  4:00 PM EST Mon. Jun. 03, 2013
  May's biggest executive moves in the IT industry include a new CEO for Intel and a major enterprise move at HP.
• Channel Beat: Dell, Cisco Winning Server Share (Video)
  1:00 PM EST Fri. May. 31, 2013
  This week's recap also looks at HP's promotion of veteran executive Mike Parrottino to a new enterprise position, plus a new Microsoft cloud survey.
• 10 Hot Tech Startups For May
  12:00 PM EST Fri. May. 31, 2013
  From network virtualization to big data analytics to unified communications hardware, there's no shortage of startups with innovative technologies this month.
• HP Anywhere Goes Mobile, With New Development Tools For Partners
  12:40 PM EST Wed. May. 29, 2013
  The company's new offerings provide better ways to link mobile applications with corporate cloud systems and monitor their performance.